When you were in Pre-School

[haplotype]

Did you:

- drink the paint?
- make drawings of burning houses that made all the adults sh*t their pants?
- sh*t in the hallway?
- have ultra-competitive parents who re-arranged all the classroom tools in your favor?
- "accidentally" bring a chair down on another kid?
- get all your stuff broken by the Sped kid who came to class to "make friends"?
- make the teaching assistant with the tinted glasses lose her temper?
- steal the small red bouncing balls?
- run away from school?
- put gum in a girl's hair?
- secretly break someone else's art project?
- have a favorite kid you liked to beat up at the bus stop?
- have a 5th grade friend who let you drink beer?
- bring the Japanese robot toy to class that made everyone jealous, so the teacher took it away?
- call the teacher a b*** because she took it away?
- have a panic attack during the abstract problem solving exercise?
- meet the classmate's Asian mother who really hated you?

[halfbreed]

'No' for all.

[haplotype]

Or were you from a poor family that never sent you to pre-school?

Did you ever:

- steal the batteries from a rich kid's toy?
- say you wanted the same cool shoes as other kids, but got the angry tear-filled speech from your mother about how she had no shoes when she was a girl?
- take your school lunch in a plastic shopping bag?
- the only kid in class who got reduced-fare lunches?
- make social services investigate you because of things you said about your family?
- not play sports because your parents couldn't afford the uniforms?
- "Santa Clause is too poor to fly this year"?
- The nice church lady gave you the doll you always wanted, but your mom snatched it out of your hand and gave it back?

(I was not poor, but not rich either.)

[pandaroo]

I used to do something all the teachers said was "dangerous" - leaning on the chair. When I was little, I leant back too much one day and quickly tried to hold onto something. So I held onto the desk in front of me and it came falling down with me. Gawd that was stupid.